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JOHN COUGHLIN, the St Mirren manager, called for home steel before his side met Raith Rovers. Unsporting behaviour, however, was surely not on his wish list.

With 81 minutes gone, and the score locked at 1-1, the visitors kicked the ball out of play to allow Martin Prest to receive treatment. But rather than play it back to a Raith player, Brian McGinty threw it to Robert Dunn, and from his cross, Ricky Gillies rose to head past goalkeeper Ramiro Gonzalez. “They decided they didn’t want to give it back, but it might have been fair play if they had,” said Antonio Calderon, Raith’s player-manager.

St Mirren had managed a rare early goal when John O’Neill picked up the ball on the edge of the area and drilled low past Gonzalez.

John Sutton thought he had equalised five minutes later but was, correctly, flagged for offside. Then, two minutes before